Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from … potential scarring effect of the pandemic, policies should be deployed to reduce rapidly the number of children affected by …

, when pandemic-specific factors played a key role above and beyond demand. Prediction errors from a multilateral import … demand model in 2020 vary systematically with the health preparedness of trade partners, suggesting that pandemic … spillovers accounted for up to 60 percent of the observed decline in trade in the early phase of the pandemic, but their effect …

World trade contracted dramatically during the global economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Disruptions in …

during the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic was only partly due to government lockdowns. Economic activity also … reduce COVID-19 infections, especially if they are introduced early in a country's epidemic. Despite involving short …

The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have led to a rise in gender-based violence. In this paper, we explore the economic … consequences of violence against women in sub-Saharan Africa using large demographic and health survey data collected pre-pandemic … violence by 1 percentage point can reduce economic activities (as proxied by nightlights) by up to 8 percent. This economic …

Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of … poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress … in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to …

A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i … economic fallout of the pandemic …

those schemes in stabilizing household income during the pandemic across European countries. Empirical evidence shows that …The COVID-19 pandemic had posed a dramatic impact on labor markets across Europe. Forceful fiscal responses have … support households. This paper uses a microsimulation approach (EUROMOD) and household data to assess the effectiveness of …